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Theses (M.A.)--Marshall University, 2006. / Title from document title page. Includes abstract. Document formatted into pages: contains iii, 72 p. Bibliography: p. 71-72.

Detta examensarbete behandlar min instudering av sångcykeln The House of Life, med dikt av Dante Gabriel Rossetti och musik av Ralph Vaughan Williams, med hjälp av en specifik övningsmetod; ett så kallat randomised practice schedule. Den teoretiska bakgrunden innefattar kortfattade biografier om textförfattaren, tonsättaren och den valda metoden. Metodkapitlet behandlar mitt tillvägagångssätt vid instudering. I de nästföljande resultat- och diskussionskapitlen presenteras tolkningar av text och musik, samt reflektioner över instuderingsmetoden och –processen. Den valda instuderingsmetoden har överlag varit effektiv, och samtidigt krävande på ett mentalt plan. Vid tillämpning av metoden gjordes vissa avvikelser ifrån den ursprungliga planen, vilka tas upp i resultatkapitlet. Genom metoden har en stark anknytning skapats till det textliga materialet, som sedan kunnat stödja och underlätta tolkningsprocessen och även den musikaliska inlärningen. / <p>Styckena som framfördes vid presentationen var: <em>Lovesight, </em><em>Silent Noon,</em> <em>Love's Minstrels </em>ur sångcykeln <em>The House of Life </em>av Ralph Vaughan Williams. Dessa framfördes av Jakob Wall (sång) och Anders Kilström (piano).</p>

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This dissertation examines Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s knowledge and interpretation of the Italian Renaissance during the 1860s. I argue that there is a relationship between Rossetti’s Aestheticism and his understanding of the Italian Renaissance and that this relationship is visibly manifested in his images of women from the period. In Victorian England, Aestheticism and the philosophy of beauty for its own sake became increasingly popular throughout the 1860s. I challenge the idea that Aestheticism and an interest in Renaissance art are mutually exclusive aspects of the artist’s work. Rossetti’s images of women expressed both his understanding of Renaissance art and the central place of beauty in painting. Based upon Rossetti’s interpretation of Renaissance art and poetry, his criticism, and the criticism of his peers, this dissertation argues that the beauty of women in Rossetti’s paintings came to stand for the beauty of art. Rossetti’s paintings promoted sensual Aesthetic experience in their conflation of formal and female beauty. Using the historically idealized conventions of female portraiture, Rossetti created images of women that privileged Aesthetic beauty over narrative or moral meaning. His use of vibrant, rich color, a quality he and his peers inexorably associated with Venetian Renaissance painting, revealed the connection between Renaissance art and his Aestheticism. Color helped to define his paintings of women as examples of beautiful, sensuous painting. For Rossetti, the representation of alluring, beautiful women was the most powerful way to express the experience of Aesthetic beauty as intoxicating, sensual, and even morally ambiguous.

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Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti both suffered from ambivalent feelings concerning the role female sexuality plays in the salvation of the soul. These ambivalent feelings ranged from seeing female sexuality as leading men to salvation, to seeing it as a trap for the destruction of women's souls as well as men's. The contradictory feelings of the Rossettis' typifies the Victorian people's experience and was caused by the nature of the times. Using the analysis of the period by Walter E. Houghton in The Victorian Frame of Mind: 1830-1870, this paper describes the affect the Victorians' religious zeal, their "moral earnestness," and their "woman-worship" had on the two Rossetti poets.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1977. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 367-377).

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